In almost every poem Walt Whitman wrote he seems to be fashioning himself, if not the whole of this American people, which sometimes he did call an American race, as a new Adam.

在沃尔特·惠特曼所写的的几乎每首诗中,他似乎都是在标榜自己,如果不是标榜美国人民的话,但他确实有时将美利坚民族,称为一个新的亚当

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And as Walt Whitman wrote in poem after poem, and other poets did as well, and politicians said over and over and over and over America, and this United States, this nation formed there would be the beginning of a new man, a new start for humankind.

对此沃尔特·惠特曼和其他诗人,写下了众多的诗篇,政治家们也对此喋喋不休,这片土地上,在美利坚合众国,人们可以获得新生,这也是,人类的新起点

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